Plato's Rivalry with Medicine : a Struggle and Its Dissolution.
While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). Levin's arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Levin shows that an evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine's status emerges in the Gorgias and is explored in Plato's critiques of medicine in the Symposiu. |
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| Item Description: | 2. Entrenchment in Bioethics' Quest for Alternatives: Two Prominent Illustrations. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780199919819 019991981X |
